fail to exit shell after issuing 'ssh -f .... targethost.foo.bar sleep 500000' [SOLVED]

[Jochen Kirn]

**Hi Darren,

thanks for the information.
I've applied the mentioned patch for openssh 4.5p1

the patch itself contains a minor typo (closing bracket) for line 1455 (I've
attached a corrected version of
your patch to bug http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52).

The patch itself resolves the issue of hang-on-exit on AIX when executing a
'ssh -f ...'

thanks for your great help :-)

--
Jochen

2006/11/27, Darren Tucker <dtucker at zip.com.au>:
>
> Jochen Kirn wrote:
> > when issuing following command on an AIX host:
> > $ ssh -2 -n -f -x -L6666:localhost:6666 -o BatchMode=yes targethost
> sleep
> > 500000
> > $ exit
> >
> [...]
>
> I suspect this is an instance of this bug:
> http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52
>
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